Forum's been down for ages. What have you all be up to since the end of October?

I booked some tickets to see Beethoven's 9th Symphony in June at the Albert Hall, secured a place and Scholarship at the Royal College of Music for undergraduate next year on Viola, visited the National Science Museum and went and got pissed a couple of times...

I pretty much did nothing at all. My favorite winter activity is in a lockout (NHL) so I cannot go to games, but I do see some players because I skate at the same rink they do. But really, I did nothing interesting.

Just before the forum shut down I managed to get myself a job. I now work in a Call Centre for LG, but not working with anything cool like TV's or mobile phones, I provide customer support for washing machines, fridge/freezers, dishwashers and any other white goods. Good company to work for, staff are great, my boss likes me but there's not a lot of job satisfaction but on the bright side, at least we got proper training (technical included) instead of doing our job by reading from a script, it was a temp-to-perm job and last week my boss said I'm going permanent in mid January, so at least it's job security now. No more temping and I can be fussy with what I apply for now.

I went to Texas the week before Thanksgiving, with plans to go to the F1 race, but couldn't score tickets, so I ended up partying and golfing with a buddy in Houston and Galveston, with a Friday night spent in Austin.

I pretty much did nothing at all. My favorite winter activity is in a lockout (NHL) so I cannot go to games, but I do see some players because I skate at the same rink they do. But really, I did nothing interesting.

Congrats on the scholarship, EV.

It's hard to believe, but people used to get pregnant all the time before the internet! My wife got pregnant twice! One of them looks a bit like me.

I pretty much did nothing at all. My favorite winter activity is in a lockout (NHL) so I cannot go to games, but I do see some players because I skate at the same rink they do. But really, I did nothing interesting.

Congrats on the scholarship, EV.

It's hard to believe, but people used to get pregnant all the time before the internet! My wife got pregnant twice! One of them looks a bit like me.

Ah, but before the Internet you didn't know you were missing something better.

A whole bunch of concerts with the 2 community concert bands I play with during the school year -- 2 at a music festival, 2 for Remembrance Day, and at least 5 Christmas shows that I can recall. In addition to clarinet I got to play piano on a few songs, including a medley of songs from A Charlie Brown Christmas. (Also bought a portable 88-key digital piano for practising and gigging, as there just aren't enough keys on My aging and temperamental synthesizer.)

I quit my job to go off and get a candidate for an unnamed office elected[1], finished that, then worked on my (c)rap music in my down time with much less success. I'm about to go back to working a regular person job (inshallah). But yo, at my last interview I was asked if I was comfortable with sometimes working 12 hour days and I tried hard not to laugh. My homie from the field office said he actually calculated that he got more sleep the day after the election than he got in the week leading up to it. Sounded about right.

After the election, I had a grand old time failing at girls again. But that ended up being fine, even though we tend to run in the same circles. Also, I find that everyone I know from the various evil lefty campaigns we participated in or were associated with has this weird sense of joy in reading about how spectacularly ORCA failed.

I survived hurricane Sandy - 2 weeks without power. I took Mrs Screwtape to the Carribean for a week. I read Outliers, but Malcom Gladwell. It sufficiently explains my failure to be rich. I spent 2 of the last 7 weeks with my inlaws, proving absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder.I built a model helicopter. Bell H-13H. MASH version, though I did not paint it.[1]

Hmm, the last month or so... Paid $20K to have the basement foundation repaired, found my muse and started writing again, and went on a honeymoon with xphobe, whom I met here. Oh, and got to meet up with albeto and hypagoga for Japanese food and hours of great conversation.

I think about you guys a lot more often than I post. My life has gotten so insanely busy that I just don't have time for online discussion like I used to. I've been going through withdrawals for months.

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Sheldon: Ever since you started having regular intercourse your mind has lost its edge. You should reflect on that.Leonard: Well, Einstein had a busy sex life.Sheldon: Yes, but he never unified gravity with the other forces. If he hadn't been such a hounddog we'd all have time machines.